{"id":6579,"date":"2015-05-05T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/argentine-giant-flowers-encore\/"},"modified":"2015-05-05T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T03:00:08","slug":"argentine-giant-flowers-encore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/argentine-giant-flowers-encore\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine Giant Flowers Encore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/giant-flowers.jpg' title='Argentine Giant Flowers'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/giant-flowers.jpg' alt='Argentine Giant Flowers' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the second time this spring, our <strong>Argentine Giant Cactus<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Echinopsis_candicans\">Echinopsis candicans<\/a>) had two flowers open. They were out last night, but I waited to take this photo until this morning when they were fully open and the light was good.<\/p>\n<p>This is a single stem cactus at present, but the species can spread out by producing more stems and can occupy a large area. In its present location, we can&#8217;t allow it to spread too much, so we will remove and replant other stems should they occur.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain, but we may be getting a third bloom in a while since there seems to be another fuzzy patch that may develop into another flower. That would be nice. The flowers are are beautiful and fragrant. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time this spring, our Argentine Giant Cactus (Echinopsis candicans) had two flowers open. They were out last night, but I waited to take&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,72,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}